Just last year, those freedom-loving Americans who were paying attention waited with apprehension while the World Health Organization (WHO) hammered out details of its so-called Pandemic Agreement. This not-so-thinly-veiled attempt at a power grab would usurp authority over all participating nations in the case of a future global health crisis.

In May of this year, the final text of the agreement was adopted by WHO’s World Health Assembly (WHA), with the United States notably absent from the proceedings. This disengagement from the global body is no accident: President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office ending the United States’ relationship with WHO, effective in January 2026, after a mandatory one-year waiting period. While this is wonderful news for our national sovereignty, the decision can easily be reversed by any future administration friendly to the globalist agenda.

WHO’s increasingly alarming ideology on everything from sexuality to human exceptionalism has driven entire nations (including ours) in the opposite direction. But Illinois legislators are up to their characteristic foolishness, making an end run around the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to give WHO the final say on abortion in the state.

HB 3637, sponsored by state Rep. Dagmara Avelar (D-Bolingbrook), states in part:

“If a drug had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before January 1, 2025, the revocation of approval of the drug by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after that date shall not cause it to be deemed an adulterated drug in violation of this Act if the drug is recommended for use by the World Health Organization, even if the drug’s labeling reflects prior approval that is no longer in effect,”

In short, if a drug was approved before President Trump took office, and its approval is revoked under his administration, Illinois liberals want to continue allowing it to be prescribed, so long as WHO still endorses its use.

The bill also protects medical providers who lose their licenses in other states, as long as their conduct was not unlawful in Illinois. It’s part of a broader trend of “shield laws” in some states, often enacted to protect medical providers from federal or interstate litigation related to services like abortion medications or vaccinations.

In theory, the law applies to any drugs approved before January 1, but make no mistake: HB3637 is primarily about persisting in providing and expanding access to medical abortion. Even if the FDA removes its approval of the abortion pill over valid safety concerns (of which there are many), our state will allow physicians to continue prescribing it.

Protecting providers who lose their licenses is just another way Illinois progressives are vying for the dubious title of “abortion sanctuary state.”  This, coupled with offering medical abortion even in the face of documented safety concerns, proves what we know about the most radical abortion proponents: they are not concerned for the well-being of women. Rather, they are obsessed with an imagined right to end the lives of the most vulnerable among us, no matter what.

According to The Center Square, Rep. Bill Hauter (R-Morton) was one of the few voices to speak against this bill on the House floor. As a physician, he was understandably alarmed as ideology so clearly trumped common sense:

“We have to stop this sort of breaking down all of the safety mechanisms we have around abortion. There has [sic] to be some safety mechanisms … Do not reject the authority of the U.S. federal [sic] Drug Administration. This is an important safety mechanism. This bill would reject that. This is unprecedented in my mind.”

Pro-abortion voices love to spin the language around abortion, referring to “reproductive health” and calling the deliberate killing of unborn babies “healthcare.” But Illinois lawmakers have tipped their hand by aligning with WHO, which refutes the exceptionalism of human life, encourages sexual deviancy, disregards distinctions between the sexes, and actively encourages population control.

Unsurprisingly, HB3637 passed both the House and the Senate along party lines during the Spring session. The bill now awaits Governor Pritzker’s signature, which he will no doubt give. Pray for our state, pray that vulnerable women will be made aware of the dangers of medical abortion, and pray that those who willingly aid in the killing of innocents, from the clinic to the state house, will repent and trust in Jesus.